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lawhawk3/05/2010 6:34:47 am PST

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see that the Obama Administration is about to completely flip on the idea of holding the KSM 9/11 trials in NYC and that they may put him and all the rest in tribunals after all.

What a mess the Administration made of this - all to push the symbolism of trial over common sense and that the government - including Congress and the Courts - established a tribunal system that would guarantee the rights of detainees in a way that wouldn’t grant them complete access to federal courts to spread their message and which would take into account the fact that these detainees were captured under less than ideal conditions from a legal standpoint (ie battlefields, captured without Mirandization, etc.)